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J. OASTBLLQ REFRIGERATOR.

No. 278,507. Patented May29,1883.

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JAMES CASTELL, er OENTR EVILLE, IOWA.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,507, dated May 29, 1883.

Application filed February 23, 1883. (No model.)

I i In order to admit of the withdrawal of the o a. which the following is a specification, referto in refrigerating-rooms and refrigerators; and

ence being'had therein to the accompanying drawings. y i

This invention pertains to an improvement it consists in the combination and arrange ment of parts, substantially as hereinafter more fullyset forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of my improved refrigerating-room and refrigerator. Fig. 2 is; a plan view thereof with the top in place. -Fig. 3 is a plan view with the top or main cover removed, andFig. 4 is a detailed sectional view thereof.

In carrying'out my invention I construct the refrigerating-room or refrigerator A, in each side, with an air-space, B, which, though with its upper half subdividedby a partition, a, secured to the inner and outer walls, 0 G,

- of the said air-space, is allowed to communi cate with its adjoining space, thus forming a continuous chamber or space extending eutirelyaround the room or refrigerator. This space or chamber constitutes a dead-air chamber, which serves as a non-conductor of heat and prevents the escape of the cold from the refrigerating-chamber.

Inward from and adjoining the air-spaces B is a similar arrangement of spaces, within which are placed small ice-receptacles D, with their lower ends reaching down in line with a drip-pan, E, placed on the bottom of the refrigerator. k i

The ice-receptacle spaces form the boundary of a centralprovision-chamber, F, which is divided centrally by spacedapart partitions,

the space D between them containing additional icle-receptacles, D and said partitions extendihg somewhat more than two-thirds the length of the provision-chamber F to another partition, G, arranged in and subdividing the said chamber.

ice-receptacles D as a means of furnishing a sufficiency of room in the refrigerator to admit the advantageous packing therein ofithe larger articles, I provide the removableframe G which is fitted between the refrigeratorwalls 0.

The smaller space on one side of the partition G is subdivided by partitions G into a number of compartments, H, which may be used for the reception of special articles of food.

The drip-pan consists of four curved-bottomed troughs, and a fifth similar trough extending-from the inner side of one of the troughs and to about the partition G, underneath the ice-receptacles D "D From the lowest point in the bottom of the drip-pan E depends, through the bottom of the house or refrigerator, an overflow-elbow or drain-tube, E, with its discharge end turned upward to cause the holding of a portion of the drip-water from the melting ice, and thus seal it as against the entrance of external warm air. The discharge end beingturned up against the bottom of the refrigerator, escape of fluid by leakage or drainage is permitted, while the surface of the water in the pipe 'is protected by the cold bottom of the refrigerator from the warmed temperature of the outer atmosphere.

The several compartments of the refrigerating-room or refrigerator are provided with separate ringed lids let into openings in the top or cover.

Among other purposes, this room or refrigerator is for keeping in a state of preservation, especially in warm weather, market chickens or poultry, all kinds of game, and fresh meats, while it is adapted to so reduce the temperature of the provision-chamber as to cause the freezing of its contents in a few hours. V

I am aware that it is not new to construct refrigerators .or refrigerating-rooms with deadair walls for maintaining a low degree of temperature, and I am aware that ice-receptacles and drains have been employed in refrigerators; but 7 a What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the frame G", having secured thereto the ice-receptacles D outen air-spaces, B, ice-receptacles D, central provision-chambers, F, and drip-pan E, emptying into drain-tube E, substantialiy as shown, and for the purpose described;

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. 1

H. ,H, DEWEY, J As; K. BOYLES. 

